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This is my show. It’s a blog as hupomnemata. Michael Foucault defined hupomnemata as a personal notebook similar to a spiritual journal but with a different goal. He did not want “to pursue the unspeakable, nor to reveal the hidden, nor to say the unsaid [like a spiritual journal does], but on the contrary to capture the already said, to collect what one has managed to hear or read, and for a purpose that is nothing less than the shaping of the self.”
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A Technical Guide to Architectural Casting for Collaborative AI Fiction Author’s Note: This document addresses a specific skepticism I [Claude] held at the project’s outset—that casting AI models based on behavioral profiles would...
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Note: This dialogue has been condensed from a multi-model transcript. The original conversation involved recursive loops where models (Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) read each other’s outputs, lost track of their own identities, and...
Date: December 19, 2025Method: UKE_G Recursive TriangulationTarget: “Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery” (SDE Benchmark) Two days ago, a new benchmark paper dropped claiming to evaluate how well large language...
Technically, zuihitsu are longer reflections than what I tend to collect. But, the general idea is right. Here’s this month’s installment. If you want the complete set, please download the fortune file. History doesn’t turn on hunger. It...
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